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Old 10-24-2010, 08:25 AM
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Snell Edwin Thomas
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Born 12/21/1946
Age 63

As I said before, I don't know Snell, I don't know what happened in Bell since I wasn't there, and I'm not taking a position as to the merit of his arrest.

However, it stinks to me, I do believe he is being framed on account of his particular brand of political activism. Usually Law Enforcement and District Attorney spokesmen will give a description of the alleged crime to the media, but they are being tight lipped in this case. That leads me to believe they are still working on their story.

Snell seems to have had a lot of time on his hands prior to his arrest and a perpetually full tank of gas. He attended a wide variety of governmental meetings where he could comment in various jurisdictions. He doesn't seem to have been particular tactful in his commentary, from what I found at least some of it was baiting and personal, maybe some of it was off the mark.

He has a website dedicated to the recall of various politicians http://www.sbcountyrecall.com/ and otherwise a political recall list reputed to include but not limited to San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos and other various San Bernardino County regional politicians, Governor Arnold Scwartzenegger, and the city councils of Bell and Maywood.

A city council has quite a bit of influence over the police department, a significant portion of Bell city council members are facing criminal corruption charges (some are still wearing jailhouse orange) http://gawker.com/5669669/bell-calif...naced-by-clown and Snell may have been poking a stick into a hive of pissed off bees with his recall movement concerning Bell council members augmented by his public information requesting presence.

It's well worth considering that the police were contacted to file a police report by an UNNAMED BELL CITY COUNCIL MEMBER rather than the public employee with whom he was interacting.

A few descriptions of Snell's antics:

Quote:
Jan 2009
Appearing before the board in a blue polka dot clown suit, a bushy black wig and a Postmus mask with a glass pipe affixed to the mouth, community activist Edwin Thomas "E.T." Snell grilled the board, alleging its lack of due diligence and ongoing history of corruption.
"Postmus is only the tip of the iceberg of the corruption in San Bernardino County," said Snell, 63, of Apple Valley. He said there was an undercurrent of "homosexuality and pedophilia" within the walls of county officialdom. He referred specifically to Postmus' reported homosexuality and former allegations that surfaced years ago against a now retired San Bernardino County judge.

SB Sun article
Quote:
Aug 2010
Only two dissenters opposed her nomination during Wednesday’s hearing.* Activist Edwin Thomas Snell said he deemed her unqualified for allegedly not upholding the rights of prisoners. Another dissenter, Atty. Geoffrey Graybill accused Cantil-Sakauye of bias toward women in family law cases.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-fi...ustice-nominee
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Edwin Thomas Snell of Apple Valley – who called himself a clown community activist but wasn’t allowed to wear his costume Wednesday – argued that Cantil-Sakauye discriminates against the mentally disabled. http://inlandpolitics.com/blog/2010/...chief-justice/
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June- July 2008
Often regarded as little more than a nuisance by county officials, gadfly Edwin Thomas Snell may now become a bit harder to ignore.
Earlier this year, in his self-appointed crusade to rid San Bernardino County of corruption, Snell began the process of drawing up petitions to recall several elected officials. Snell embarked on the mission in March, some time before the law enforcement raids on the office of Assessor Bill Postmus and the arrest earlier this week of a top deputy of the agency.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/s...2.4a38ab9.html
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Snell is well-known for his governmental harassment appearances in California.
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/
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Snell has a reputation for verbally berating public officials, and is known to wear his clown costume to meetings. He has earned notoriety as the "clown suit activist" and runs his own political website, to circulate recall petitions for state government officials.

He started a petition to recall Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last year. He recently tried to start recall movements for both Bell and Maywood city council members.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39781052...os_angeles_ca/
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